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Record Your Brilliant Ideas In Style For Either Public Or Private Consumption With Squarespace Note

Squarespace introduced a new mobile app called Squarespace Note
for iPhone today, but it has little to do with the company’s website
creation platform. Instead, it’s a simplified note-taking application
that can publish to your Squarespace account, but doesn’t have to, since
it also offers cross-syncing to Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook
and email.

The app is barebones: you get a simple composition field, the ability
to type out some text, and also to include links. Once you’ve got all
your credentials entered, you simply tap which services you want to
receive this particular missive and send it out. There are nice options
depending on each service, like the ability to send location info,
auto-create subject lines, and either break up long content for 140
character limits with tweets or exclude longer messages from Twitter
sharing altogether.

All of this is packaged in an extremely slick user interface, with
primarily gesture-based navigation (swipe up to post, swipe left to
manage accounts and swipe right to manage your messages and history),
and transition animations that add a satisfying finish to the overall
experience.

For an app that’s really just a value-add service for Squarespace’s
main business, this is a really well-thought out and executed piece of
mobile software, and a handy replacement for the age-old trick of
emailing yourself anytime you’re struck by a sudden flash of genius.
Luckily, that almost never happens to me, but this is still a great
(free) app to have at hand on the old iPhone home screen.